Here is a brief guide about how to amaze or amuse your friends by showing them that your phone is using a new Android build. You can choose your own name, mine is JAMDOUGHNUT.
Your phone needs to be rooted so that a system file can be edited.
With my phone the system file is called build.prop and is in the directory called system.
I used the app called Root Browser to copy the file to another folder as a precaution, even though the system should automatically make a copy of build.prop and name it build.prop.bak.
With Root Browser I opened build.prop by tapping on it, then tapping on edit.
I changed ro.build.display.id=GINGERBREAD.XWKS3
to
ro.build.display.id=JAMDOUGHNUT.XWKS3
Then I tapped on save. At that point the system automatically shutdown.
After restarting the phone and going to Settings, About phone, the Build number is shown as JAMDOUGHNUT.XWKS3
Your phone needs to be rooted so that a system file can be edited.
With my phone the system file is called build.prop and is in the directory called system.
I used the app called Root Browser to copy the file to another folder as a precaution, even though the system should automatically make a copy of build.prop and name it build.prop.bak.
With Root Browser I opened build.prop by tapping on it, then tapping on edit.
I changed ro.build.display.id=GINGERBREAD.XWKS3
to
ro.build.display.id=JAMDOUGHNUT.XWKS3
Then I tapped on save. At that point the system automatically shutdown.
After restarting the phone and going to Settings, About phone, the Build number is shown as JAMDOUGHNUT.XWKS3
